The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-11
THE LATE FLUSHING DUCKING.
Does it Really Improve Married Men
to Keep Them Home After Darkp

to Keep Them Home After Darkp
From the Nety York Erenj,pg sun.
One section of the morals of Flushing, L.
| l., is in the keeping of lot of ten-pin play
! ers ranging in age from 20 to 30 years. They
! are young natives who covet the task of
making married men attend to their fami-
| lies instead of owing around nights and
| getting in the way. They meet in the bowl
| ing alley on Main street and lay out their
| plans and specifications for the night. They
have taken an oath, it is said, that any
married man who is caught out after II
o'clock must be thrown into the public
! fountain and compelled TO soak there during
J their pleasure. Few escape the vigilance of
| these young men.
AT first the manageable girls clapped
| their hands and jumped up and down in
| high glee They, in their innocence, thought
that it would be a real good way to keep
their husbands home when they got mar
ried; but now the girls are wavering as to
the correctness of their first impress
sions. They are still single and have
no prospect of changing their condition.
The young men do not take kindly to mat
rimony when they reflect that some night
they may be thrown into the fountain.
Anyhow the husband ducking still goes on.
1t was only on Saturday night last that one
Charley DorScher, an eXpressman, got into
the fountain head over heels. He is unable
to tell how it happened or who did it, He
seemed to be raised up and dropped in by
some unseen power.
DOrscber is an innocent looking man. He
does not look as though he would do any
harm if he should stay out all night, but
still they threw him in and he is quite agi-
tated about it. Being publicly ducked in
public fountain is more than he is willing to
stand, and he has entered a complaint to
Capt. Hance about it and demands Satlsfac-
ton. be it ever so humble. But as the Cap
tain was within twenty feet of the fountain
when Dorscher went in, he knows as much
about it as anybody, and he laughs heartily
when reference is made to it,
well said the Captain, sit was the
funniest thing you ever heard of. l was
standing right over there" he said, pointing
to a spot near the fountain, talking with
two of my officers and three citizens. 1t
was about 1890 O'Clock. We saw two of
the gang standing down little below us,
and thought | would watch them; but /
didn't, it seems. The first thing | heard
was splash and yell l turned quickly,
but nobody was in sight. We ran to the
fountain, and there poor Dorscher lay floun-
dering in the water. He must have gone
in head first and hadn't turned around yet,
for all we could see were a pair of legs
kicking like the mischief, The officers got
the man Strengthened out, and dragged him
to the ground stood him right end up, and
fired questions at him. He said that he
wouldn't tell who ducked him. He didn't
see anybody, but he felt two men grab him,
and the next he knew he was in the water. -"
Dorscher says it is nObody's business what
kept him out late, Nobody but his family
had any right to kick, and they didn't care
fig if he never came home
Capt. Hance says he did not see anybody
throw the man ill., and he does not believe
anything can be done about it. If the right
men were arrested, it was doubtful whether
jury would convict them. The young
people of Flushing think that the morals Of
the city will improve if married men can be
kept in the house after dark.